Thus, you will see apparently serious papers published on how toads can predict earthquakes… which apply frequentist tests to produce "statistically significant" but manifestly ridiculous findings.
I know it sounds a little fussy and a little ridiculous, but finding your own rhythm is one of the most important things you can discover about yourself.
After all, as Americans, isn't one of our greatest skills finding ridiculous ways to spend money all on our own?
Over time, after my own children were born, I started to recreate some of what I remembered from my own childhood: the turkey, the tree, even the silly little gifts that had little use beyond the initial thrill of finding something ridiculous in your stocking that I once condemned as wasteful excess.
The angles he's finding are ridiculous.
But later he described to me the dual nature of this character's longing for an unattainable coolness, finding that ridiculous, impossible, but still hoping it's not.
His only challenge was crafting a legalese-sounding decision that says, "Uh, ya think?" Bloch upheld the N.H.L.'s voiding of the Kovalchuk contract, finding it ridiculous even by N.H.L. standards, as Michael Farber writes in SI.com.
"I don't know if I'll be able to," I said, finding it ridiculous that urine from an hour ago wasn't good enough.
"Rather than finding it ridiculous that it's behind those gridded glass towers, I think it's a brilliant testament to his skill at setting a scene," says Lange. "Plus, the name -- you can read all of California history into his rivers".
